Compound matchers¶

Compound matchers allow very granular minion targeting using any of Salt's matchers. The default matcher is a glob match, just as with CLI and top file matching. To match using anything other than a glob, prefix the match string with the appropriate letter from the table below, followed by an @ sign.

Matchers can be joined using boolean and, or, and not operators.

For example, the following string matches all Debian minions with a hostname that begins with webserv, as well as any minions that have a hostname which matches the regular expression web-dc1-srv.*:

salt -C 'webserv* and G@os:Debian or E@web-dc1-srv.*' test.ping

That same example expressed in a top file looks like the following:

base:
  'webserv* and G@os:Debian or E@web-dc1-srv.*':
    - match: compound
    - webserver

Note that a leading not is not supported in compound matches. Instead, something like the following must be done:

salt -C '* and not G@kernel:Darwin' test.ping

Excluding a minion based on its ID is also possible:

salt -C '* and not web-dc1-srv' test.ping

salt -C '( ms-1 or G@id:ms-3 ) and G@id:ms-3' test.ping